OMG I am going BLIND with this new look! PLEASE REVERT!

I like change, but i like to be able to see when a post changes from the post to there sig to the next post. I mean in all seriousness what is so hard about putting blue borders around posts and a blue line that seperates the posters post,sig and quotes within posts.

Hey, this new forum color scheme is really bad.

1. Its now really hard to tell "Read" threads from "Unread" threads. Old design made this much easier to see. Its virtually undetectable with this new skin.

2. WAY too much cellpadding/cellspacing between table rows. Old design could fit many more rows of data on the screen. New design has WAY too much padding and spacing between table rows, which makes the pages longer requiring WAY more scrolling than before.

3. Lack of contrast. The old system had more contrast between different elements, such as table rows. The new CSS background colors are black and ... DARK GRAY. This is barely any contrast, making everything visually merge with each other. In addition, the "dull gold on black" for text is abhorrent on the eyes. Text should be a brighter shade or color for more contrast.

Yah, I agree its hard on the eyes. There is an addon for firefox called stylish which lets you replace colors/ style for websites, but it is a bit beyond me - here's hoping someone writes a swtor.com pluggin.

I have light sensitive eyes, and it's fairly easy going on my eyes. I think the color choice is crap (pun intended) though. I would like some theme choices at least, because I really like the blue theme of the old forum.

Being color blind I find this latest version much better.

Do not want...

The colors and such aren't too awful bad (although the contrast between alternate post backgrounds is too high)... but this is a piss-poor layout for a forum. It is horribly open-faced; there's too much padding everywhere and the structure is poorly defined, providing little sense of order. Things such as borders between posts and compact spacing are musts for a forum because most folks require such visual guidance for easy reference. The font size for posts is too large.

I always shake my head whenever a website is overhauled in such a drastic manner. What's the purpose? To keep things fresh? To one-up the competition? Why? Just because your web folks have nothing better to do than think up ways to destroy your site?

The old look of the website and forums kicked this one right in the ***... you guys used to have the grooviest game website out there. Now it sucks moose-****.

When will people learn... if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Geez...


Fade to Black...

I agree. The layout is nice but it's giving me a headache.

I like it, looks modern

Here are some of your CSS problems:
http://cdn-www.swtor.com/sites/all/t...sCommunity.css

1. Lack of contrast here:
#threadslist .stripeMeEven tr:hover td { background-color:#1f1b10; }
#threadslist tr td { background: none; }
#threadslist tr.alt td { background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #0d0d0d; }

2. Far too much padding here.
#threadslist td, #threadslist th { padding:6px 15px 6px 0; border:none; }

Me no likey. And I like change, generally.